Okta is a privately owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 2009, it employs approximately 7,650 individuals. The company functions as a digital identity provider, leveraging its Okta Identity Cloud platform to enable organizations to securely connect their personnel to various technologies.
On April 3, 2026, Okta's CEO outlined a new security framework for AI agents, introducing an enterprise "kill switch" for instant access revocation. This followed an April 2, 2026 statement where CEO Todd McKinnon, who runs the $14 billion digital identity management company, advised executives grappling with agentic AI security to ask three core questions: where are their agents, what can they connect to, and what can they do, adding that CEOs are unlikely to get these answers from their in-house IT experts.
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